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Title: The Gay Rebellion

Author: Robert W. Chambers

Illustrator: Edmund Frederick

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THE GAY REBELLION

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[Illustration: "She looked at him almost insolently. . . .
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_The_

GAY REBELLION

_By_ ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

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ILLUSTRATED BY

EDMUND FREDERICK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON: MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

Copyright, 1911, by the COLUMBIAN-STERLING PUBLISHING CO.

Printed in the United States of America

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TO

SUZANNE CARROLL

_Though J. H. jeer
And "Smith" incline to frown,
I do not fear
To write these verses down
And publish them in town.
The solemn world knows well that I'm no poet;
So what care I if two gay scoffers know it?

Buck up, my Muse!
Wing high thy skyward way,
And don't refuse
To let me say my say
As bravely as I may.
To praise a lady fair I father verses,
Which Admiration cradles, Homage nurses._

_For you, Suzanne,
Long since have won my heart;
You break it, too,
And leave the same to smart full sore
Whenever you depart for Baltimore.
You're charming;--and in metre I endeavour
To say you are as winsome as you're clever._

_Winsome and wise,
Subtle in maiden's lore,
With wondrous eyes--
Alas for Baltimore,
That grows this rose no more!
As for Manhattan, that benign old vulture
Wins one more prize in fancy horticulture._

_So now to you
I dedicate this tale;
It's neither new
Nor altogether stale,--
Nor can completely fail,
For your bright name as sponsor for my story
Assures the author o